While speaking to newsmen in Lokoja, Alhaji Idris Bello, the state commander of the NDLEA, disclosed that the Policeman was a serving corporal and was arrested in a Peugeot J5 bus with a sack and black polythene bag full of the suspected substance weighing 5.1 kg.
It was learnt that the suspect (name withheld), was reported to be on a special assignment in Damaturu, Yobe State.
Bello also disclosed that on the 19th of February, one Tajudeen Yakubu was arrested along the Lokoja-Abuja highway with 16 wraps of suspected drug weighing 10.2 kg in a black polythene bags which he concealed in the rear bumper and compartments of a Volkswagen Golf car.
Similarly, another suspect, Laide Salau, a motor mechanic, was arrested on February 23 while boarding a light green Toyota Hiace bus marked Delta KA 702 URA, carrying 70 bags and three black polythene bags of the dried Indian hemp weighing 520.9kg.
